God Eater Sequence: The Devourer

But Qin Siyang believed that even a mosquito, no matter how small, was still meat—there would still be some sequence ability user teams gathering here.

This kind of knowledge was never taught in school or in class. Qin Siyang had learned it yesterday during half an hour of internet browsing, from an educational post on the [Godslayer Camp] forum.

Thinking about how that half-hour of internet time had taught him more than all his years in school, he felt a bit resentful,"School is really useless, not even a little helpful. I'd be better off just browsing the internet."

"Sigh, but internet access is too expensive, and it doesn't come with food."

"School is free, and it provides two meals a day. If only school and internet cafes could combine their benefits."

Qin Siyang thought for a moment, then chuckled softly,"As long as I can fill my stomach, I should be grateful for the United Government's policies. What right do I have to complain about school?"

It would take Qin Siyang over two hours to reach Exit No. 114514, but he was full of energy.

He was filled with anticipation for his future. That safe zone exit held his hope of escaping his current fate.

The two-hour journey was somewhat monotonous.

As he walked along the road, all he saw were rundown houses, most of which had already collapsed. The roads were covered in gravel and dust due to the lack of maintenance.

To get past these collapsed buildings and rubble, he often had to climb up and down, leaving him gasping for breath.

Although the journey was long, Qin Siyang saw very few living people in those two hours. Occasionally, he spotted one or two passersby, but they all looked hurried and were not residents of the area.

Four years ago, for some unknown reason, a few panels of the air defense glass here suddenly shattered. The air defense glass served as a barrier preventing gods from entering the safe zone. Once the glass broke, the residents here lost their only protection.

Many gods took the opportunity to rush in and launch an attack on the safe zone.

To prevent the situation from escalating, the United Government urgently deployed a team of sequence ability users, who eliminated and drove out all the invading gods. The engineering team was then sent in to swiftly repair the damaged air defense glass.

Fortunately, the United Government responded promptly, preventing any large gods from entering the safe zone; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Despite the timely intervention, the incident still caused significant losses. The former residents here either died in that attack or moved away.

The United Government repaired the safe zone's defensive structures but did not rebuild the streets and housing here.

Qin Siyang believed that once an unsafe event occurred, people would never trust the safety of this place again.

Even if infrastructure was rebuilt, no one would be willing to move in.

So the United Government simply didn't bother wasting resources.

The lack of people actually put Qin Siyang at ease—at least he didn't have to worry about anyone stealing the food in his backpack.

Most graduates from Ju'an School couldn't find a job that provided basic sustenance, which made the security here rather poor.

For Qin Siyang, an absence of people was far more reassuring than their presence.

Finally, Qin Siyang saw a blue sign as tall as two people, with large characters painted in red: [Safe Zone Exit No. 114514]

"I finally made it."

Reaching Exit No. 114514, he wanted to go closer to check out the situation but found the place was packed with people for some unknown reason.

To see what was happening inside, he had to find a high dirt mound to observe from.

His first glance landed on the protective gate of the exit.

This was his first time at a numbered safe zone exit, as well as his first time seeing the gate of a numbered safe zone exit.

The gate was about seven to eight meters wide and three to four meters high. It seemed to be made of a special alloy, looking extremely thick and heavy.

The protective glass on the gate had many layers—so many that he couldn't even see through them to the outside of the protected area.

In front of the protective gate stood over a dozen people wearing transparent helmets and orange-striped anti-freeze suits.

An anti-freeze suit cost over two silver coins—a sky-high price in Qin Siyang's world, only affordable for sequence ability users.

Since the establishment of the United Government, currency was no longer issued by individual nations but was standardized into copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins by the United Government.

Though called copper, silver, and gold coins, these currencies were not made of pure precious metals. Instead, they were various alloys designed to support widespread use in global safe zones.

Among them, copper coins were the least valuable because they were not only cheap to produce but also mixed with many impurities.

Generally speaking, the price of ten thousand copper coins was equal to that of one silver coin, and the price of one thousand silver coins was equal to one gold coin.

However, since the production cost of copper coins was low and different mints mixed various metals in different proportions, one usually needed twelve thousand copper coins to exchange for a single silver coin.

To Qin Siyang, a silver coin was as unattainable as millions in assets in his previous life.

It seemed that these people were the sequence ability users gathering at this exit.

Those wearing anti-freeze suits were the minority. Besides them, there were over a thousand ordinary people, wrapped tightly in thick clothing, surrounding the area just like Qin Siyang.

Qin Siyang was puzzled—what exactly were these people doing here?

Wasn't it only sequence ability users who gathered at the exits?

At that moment, two sequence ability users wearing anti-freeze suits took off their helmets, seemingly having completed their hunting mission and preparing to return.

Immediately, the hundreds of ordinary people around them surged forward.

"Officers, do you want to take a break? I have an excellent foot spa!"

"Officers, I have the finest dishes here!"

"I have a high-end apartment where you two can stay for free. Just take a few photos with me, and it's yours!"

"Officer, my daughter is still unmarried. The moment she saw your heroic figure, she decided she would marry no one but you!"

"Officer, do you want a wife? If you already have one, I can be the second. No need for a title, I don't mind!"

The crowd surged forward frantically, yet they maintained a tacit distance of more than a meter from the two sequence ability users.

The two ability users, seemingly accustomed to such scenes, did not linger. In the end, they simply chose a high-end restaurant and a comfortable hotel before leaving.

The owners of the selected establishments had faces flushed with excitement.

Qin Siyang stared at the crowd's reaction, utterly stunned.

He knew that sequence ability users were highly sought after in this world, but he never expected it to be this extreme.

There was no doubt—these were ordinary people living on the fringes of the safe zone. They pinned their hopes on attaching themselves to a sequence ability user, hoping to escape their miserable fate and live in a more comfortable place.

They, like Qin Siyang, were striving for upward mobility. Unfortunately, none of them had Qin Siyang's luck. Most of them would likely never escape the outskirts of the safe zone for their entire lives.

Realizing this, Qin Siyang felt a surge of gratitude toward fate and once again strengthened his resolve.

'The heavens have granted me the [God-Eater] sequence—I must become stronger.'

He wanted to push through the crowd and get closer to the remaining dozen or so sequence ability users, but he was immediately shoved aside.

"Brat, get to the back of the line! What are you pushing forward for?"

Qin Siyang said, "I'm not here to approach the sequence ability users. I won't compete with you for business."

He was only looking to see if there were any leftover divine remains nearby; he had no interest in the sequence ability users themselves.

However, the others didn't believe him.

The moment they heard his words, the people around him laughed.

"Who are you trying to fool? Every single person who tries to push forward says the same thing."

Qin Siyang had no choice but to wait at the outermost edge.

The protective gate at the exit of the safe zone opened again and again. Sequence ability users continuously entered and exited, while the crowd of ordinary people gradually dwindled.

By evening, Qin Siyang had finally secured a spot near the front.

However, unlike the others, every time a sequence ability user returned from outside the safe zone, his focus wasn't on the ability users themselves but on where their divine remains went.

Unfortunately, all the remains were taken away by the nearby United Government inspectors. He didn't manage to pick up even a single piece.

Just as Qin Siyang thought today would be a total loss, another team returned from outside the safe zone.

One of the sequence ability users examined his haul and ultimately tossed an ear—covered in squirming worms—to the ground.

"Grabbed the wrong thing. This crap is useless—wasted a whole backpack slot.",he muttered in frustration.

Qin Siyang's eyes lit up as he stared at the worm-infested ear. He swallowed hard, preparing to scoop it up while no one was paying attention.

However, before he could act, a sanitation worker swept the ear into a dustpan and walked away.

Qin Siyang nearly lost his mind. The only divine remain he had waited for all day was taken away just like that.

Abandoning his hard-earned front-row spot, he immediately followed the sanitation worker away from the safe zone exit, hoping to find a chance to snatch that divine ear.

The sanitation worker had no idea that someone would be interested in the garbage in his dustpan.

He walked to the corner of the street and dumped the ear into a filthy trash bin before leaving.

Qin Siyang stayed hidden, watching until the sanitation worker was completely gone.

"This is perfect!" Qin Siyang knew his chance had come.

The moment the sanitation worker was out of sight, Qin Siyang rushed forward, ready to retrieve the ear from the trash bin.

As soon as he lifted the lid, a strong, overpowering stench of blood assaulted his nostrils.

But the moment he saw what was inside, he froze.

The bin wasn't just filled with ordinary trash—it was full of divine remains.

Qin Siyang's eyes widened, his heartbeat pounding like a drum.

"This is… a feast?"

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